https://www.jba.or.jp/activity/study_group/green_bio/

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/25/03/13/13074/

The Japan Bioindustry Association (JBA)has launched the “Bio-monozukuri Forum” to solve problems that companies face when starting up businesses in the bio-manufacturing field.

The government’s Integrated Innovation Strategy Promotion Council decided on the “Bioeconomy Strategy” in June 2024. The strategy outlines a policy to expand the bioeconomy market by utilizing Japan’s strengths, leading to both the resolution of various issues and sustainable economic growth, and includes a goal of expanding the bioeconomy market to 100 trillion yen in Japan and overseas by 2030.

The strategy plans to drive the expansion of the bioeconomy market with three pillars:

(1) biomanufacturing and bio-derived products,

(2) primary production (agriculture, forestry, and fisheries), and

(3) healthcare, including biopharmaceuticals and regenerative medicine.

However, in the field of biomanufacturing, such as biomanufacturing and bio-derived products, there are many issues that are difficult for companies to solve through individual efforts even if they want to advance commercialization. Therefore, the Biomanufacturing Forum was launched to solve these common issues and accelerate industrialization in collaboration with industry, academia, government, and local governments.

The forum is composed of a social implementation WG and a research and development WG.

The social implementation WG is a newly established WG whose members are companies, organizations, and institutions that aim to implement biomanufacturing in society, and it promotes industrial development through horizontal division of labor. So far it has been joined by 84 companies, 10 public member organizations, and 5 individuals. The working group is headed by Toshiya Katsuragi, Executive Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Mitsubishi Chemical Group.

The research and development WG is a WG that was reorganized from the existing Green Innovation Forum (GIF), and is centered on researchers from universities and research institutions, and promotes basic activities that will lead to future industries by promoting the nationalization of basic research and policy proposals.